After Representation 1 by Sama Tari
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Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Dimensions: 29 x 42 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $500.00 USD
Status: available
This collection is the result of my exploration and reflection on the independent potential of the language of painting a place where painting is released from the task of representing the external world and enters an autonomous realm. In these artworks, non-representational abstraction is not the elimination of reality but the opening of new horizon for emotion and thought. For me, painting is a field of freedom; freedom from imagery, from fixed narratives, and from everything that confines the language of painting to representation. This freedom makes possible the emergence of structure that can only exist within painting itself independent of any external reference. Each artwork evolves through the act of painting, and meaning emerges through the encounter between the artwork and the viewer. "After Representation" is an invitation to experience painting directly; a space in which color, line, texture, rhythm, and movement are used not to describe objects but to create a world beyond.
Why collect this work?
A pale central field is compressed by denser strokes along the upper and right edges. This asymmetry makes pictorial space seem generated by competing gestures rather than by depicted scenery.
- Tari describes the 2026 series as releasing painting from external reference. Here, marks suggest growth, water, or terrain but never settle into identifiable objects.
- In the photograph, downward ochre trails meet red diagonals and layered green curves. These conflicting directions hold the composition between descent and lateral movement.
- The documented acrylic on paper supports abrupt overlaps and shifts between broad fields and narrow strokes. Colour becomes structural, dividing the open centre from the compressed right edge.
- At a documented 29 by 42 cm, the painting concentrates expansive gestures within a modest format. It provides a focused case for considering how landscape associations persist within non-representational painting.
About the Artist
Sama Tari
Sama Tari is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Tehran, IR.
Nationality: Iranian
"After Representation" Collection 2026 This collection is the result of my exploration and reflection on the independent potential of the language...
